Top in Fiction Week #14

Week of Oct 5 - Oct 11 | TiF Ambassador Edition | Vol. 1 Iss. 14

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MICRO/FLASH FICTION

Waiting - 10/9/24 [Art Fiction]

Feasts and Fables

of Just Write, Right

A Barred Owl in the Infinite Darkness of the Maine Woods - 10/8/24 [Literary Fiction]

Dr. Kathleen Waller

of The Matterhorn: truth in fiction

SHORT STORY

Eggitude Probing (Part 1 of 2) - 10/7/24 [Speculative Fiction]

A.P. Murphy

of The Strangeness Kit

Eggitude Probing (Part 2/Finale) - 10/8/24 [Speculative Fiction]

A.P. Murphy

of The Strangeness Kit

Detroit Morning - 10/9/24 [Literary Fiction]

Thomas Foydel

of False Choices

Wildcatter - 10/8/24 [Sci-Fi]

Karl Gallagher

of Karl K. Gallagher’s Stories

Roko's Lathe™ - 10/7/24 [Sci-Fi]

M.P. Fitzgerald - Graphomania

of Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

UNFILTERED - 10/5/24 [Comedy]

Harsh Munjal

of Almost Fiction

Domesticated - 10/5/24 [Horror]

Jimmy Gardner

of Clean Chaos

Always, whenever I look at you - 10/10/24 [Speculative Fiction]

Nathan Slake

of SLAKE

Where God Once Lay - 10/9/24 [Horror]

Keith Loser

of Loser’s Fiction

SERIAL

Bunny ears, bunny ears [Dry Bread Ain’t Greasy, Ch. I] - 10/5/24 [Neo-Western]

Remi K. Chevalier

of Dry Bread Ain’t Greasy

Beware the Darkness [Child of Light, Ch. 4] - 10/9/24 [Fantasy]

Diana Hannay

of Fickle & Whimsy

Fallout 30 - 10/6/24 [Literary Fiction]

Eleanor Anstruther

of The Literary Obsessive

Gifts [The Consilience Series, Ch. 8] - 10/7/24 [Speculative Fiction]

Johnathan Reid

of The Consilience Series

HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Neighbor [things that can't be broken, Ch. 5] - 10/5/24 [Literary Fiction]

Shannon W Haynes

of Chapter by Chapter [Serial]

THE DISHES - 10/9/24 [Satire]

Camila Hamel

of Helium Voices [Comic]

The Shaman [Part 1 of 3] - 10/5/24 [Speculative Fiction]

P. E. Rempel

of Fiction by P. E. Rempel [Short Story]

Déjà Vu Dinner [The Adventures of Seeker and the Serpents, Ch. 1] - 10/8/24 [Sci-Fi]

August Niehaus

of August Writes Books [Serial]

Road [Quibble, Ch. 26] - 10/10/24 [Sci-Fi]

Joshua Lavender

of Singular Dream [Serial]

Read the comments section for even MORE stories we just couldn’t fit in this issue.

Thanks, Erica, for the invitation to step in your shoes and select today’s Top In Fiction. I read for hours until I got a stiff neck. Margaret Atwood was right when she said writers should care for their backs. It does catch up with you. Besides a stiff neck, I gained a new respect for Erica’s work here every week for the fiction community. I went through all of the 30 entries in Friday’s thread. More than half of those entries were thousands of words long!

It felt like a treat to take several hours and read such a diverse collection of stories in various genres written by authors with such diverse and original voices. As a reader, I don’t have any preference for a particular type of literature or speculative fiction, I’ve read widely in my life, and I like variety. Therefore, my main criterion for selecting each piece was the immersion factor. Immersion can be created through a variety of writer tools and devices. For example, the tension Diana Hannay built in her novel chapter kept me glued to the page, wanting to know what happened next. The funny revelations of what dogs think about their owners made me want to read more of Harsh Munjal’s Unfiltered. The strange, witty and highly creative piece of A.P. Murphy’s Eggitude Probing was exhilarating. Thomas Foydel’s Detroit Morning and Keith Loser’s Anthology Short: Where God Once captivated me with their fantastic prose.

Another point worth mentioning as a reader is being allowed to jump directly into the story without any background information or exposition. The experience of being thrown into the unknown with the characters and having to figure out the puzzle on my own, bit by bit, is immensely satisfying. As writers, we should trust that the reader is smart enough to figure things out. This is a lesson I’ll remember when writing my own fiction.

Reading your work was a pleasure, and I’m looking forward to more fiction!

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Claudia Befu

of Story Voyager

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